Trusted automation for industrial Internet of Things (PhD scholarship)

Application dates

Applications close

31 March 2025

What you'll receive

• You’ll receive a stipend of $41,650 per annum for a maximum duration of 3.5 year while undertaking a QUT PhD. This is the full-time, tax-exempt rate.
• In addition to the stipend, the scholarship provides for an annual training budget of $5,000 and a total travel budget of $5,000.
• You will receive a tuition fee offset/sponsorship, covering the cost of your tuition fees for the first four full-time equivalent years of your doctoral studies.
• As the scholarship recipient, you will have the opportunity to work with a team of leading researchers, to undertake your own innovative research in and across the field.
• This scholarship is part of a Next Generation Graduates Program grant, which means that your study will be linked to an industry partner. This will provide you with more real-world focus in your research and opportunity to engage closely with the industry partner.

Eligibility

How to apply

Apply for this scholarship at the same time you apply for admission to a QUT Doctor of Philosophy.

• The first step is to email Professor Raja Jurdak detailing your academic and research background, your motivation to research in this field and interest in this scholarship, and include your CV.
• If supported to apply, you will then submit an expression of interest (EOI) following the advice at how to apply for a research degree.
• Ensure you include in your EOI, the proposed principal supervisor that we advised in our email and copy the link to this scholarship website into question two of the financial details section.

About the scholarship

This scholarship is part of our funded program to train the next generation graduates in trusted automation for industrial Internet of Things through a close partnership between industry and academia. Being at the intersection of three emerging technologies with the potential to transform how we live and work, this program offers students unique opportunities to gain skills that are highly relevant for industry.

Students will work on applied research projects, where the research problem is inspired by real world problems that industry partners are facing. The available scholarship is supported by Xippy.

Xiippy is the world's first privacy-preserving data-rich instant checkout provider, for both in-person and online payments. Xiippy has introduced three world-first offerings to the world:

• end-to-end encrypted smart receipts
• instant receipt and rewards inclusive checkout for all cards, irrespective of card issuers and banks
• first auto-populating CRM for retail (customers tap and leave and are added to the CRM without having to identify themselves or share private data with merchants, all as part of payments).

Xiippy's mission is to help connect merchants to their customers in a frictionless fashion using payments, while also protecting the privacy of payers, empowering merchant-payer connectivity and end-to-end encrypted data transfer between them.

Xiippy's founding team includes award-winning members with PhDs in the field of zero-knowledge and privacy-preserving architectures with 20+ years of digital product development leadership experiences in a range of industries, multiple patents, and previous business experiences. As software engineers by trade, Xiippy's founding team blend a range of unique cryptography and product development expertise in solving difficult problems in the field of payments.